Thaindian News

April 14, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): An extraordinary scene was unfurled at a zoo in China. It consisted of the petite build of a 3-year-old girl, who vacillated and quivered on one foot with her tiny arms stretched out in an endeavor to uphold her balance on the tightrope. The girl was exhibiting her daredevilry. What was underneath the small girl was unbelievable and shocking. Below the girl, nine Siberian tigers, which were enormously ravenous, gazed at her as if lingering for a snack to fall out of the sky.

This is the scene that developed at a Chinese zoo. This aerialist act has delighted and upset the viewers with the acts of derring-do executed on a 50-meter-long tightrope that was broadened 29 feet above the tigers’ territory. There are other fundamentals to the act. However, the incontestable superstar of the act is Xiaoyan, whose father has labeled her as the globe’s youngest tightrope walker.

At one stage, Xiaoyan, in reality, is blown off the wire by lofty winds. Only a cable fettered to the high wire and connected to a harness prohibited her from becoming a feast for the tigers. In keeping with a story in the British newspaper, The Daily Mail, the viewers shrieked when she lost her balance.

Regardless of the protestations of some, Zhang Shenwen, the administrator of the high-wire troupe, proclaimed to the correspondents that all the security rules were being abided by. Zhang is also the father of Xiaoyan. He also pronounced that his daughter has been walking the tightrope ever since she was 1. Therefore, he claimed that his daughter was experienced at it.

Still, the kid purportedly vocalized to the media that she was frightened of tigers. She stated that she knew that the tigers could bite.